Lab Director

Eric Diller, Ph.D., P.Eng.

• Dean’s Catalyst Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Assistant Professor
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
• PhD Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
• BS & MS, Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A.
• Dr. Diller has led the Microrobotics Lab since 2014. His work is on micro-scale robotics and bio-inspired novel locomotion systems, and features fabrication and control relating to remote actuation of micro-scale devices using magnetic fields, micro-scale robotic manipulation, and smart materials.
• Dr. Diller is the recipient of the MIE Department Early Career Teaching Award, the UofT Connaught New Researcher Award, the Ontario Early Researcher Award, the I.W. Smith Award from the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineers, and the Dean’s Catalyst Professorship from the UofT Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Peyman Shokrollahi, Ph.D.

• Ph.D. in Biomedical Eng. from the Univ. of Toronto in 2017
• MASc in Electrical and Computer Eng. from Ryerson Univ., in 2009
• BS in Electrical and Electronics Eng. from Shiraz Univ., Shiraz, Iran in 2001
• From 2007 to 2009, he worked at Sunnybrook Hospital on sleep data analysis, investigating the effect of medications on sleep and developing software for the detection of eye movements recorded from patients during sleep. From 2012 to 2017, he was a researcher at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto developing surgical robots for pediatric bone biopsies. His research focused on developing MRI-compatible sensors and actuators.

Graduate Student Researchers

Mohammad Salehizadeh

• Ph.D. Student
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
• MASc, Concordia Univ., Canada
• BS, Isfahan Univ. of Technology, Iran

Onaizah Onaizah

• PhD student (starting from Sept. 2015)
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
• MSc, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada
• BSc, Univ. of Toronto, Canada

Sajad Salmanipour

• PhD student (starting from Sept. 2015)
  • Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
  • MASc, McMaster Univ., Canada
  • BS, Amirkabir Univ. of Technology, Iran

Cameron Forbrigger

• PhD student (starting from Jan. 2018), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Toronto
  • Master of Applied Science, Dalhousie Univ. (2015-17), studied mechatronics and robotics with applications in abrasive manufacturing
  • Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, Dalhousie Univ. (2011-15)

Priscilla Lai

• PhD student (starting from Sept. 2018), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Toronto
• MASc, University of Waterloo
• BASc, University of Waterloo

Shenrui Pan

• PhD student (starting from Sept. 2018), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Toronto
• M.Sc., The University of Chicago, USA
• B.Eng., Beihang University, China

 

Adam Schonewille

• MASc student (starting from Sept. 2018)
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
• Bachelors of Applied Science in Engineering Physics (2013-2018), University of British Columbia

Mihai Nica

• MASc student (starting from Sept. 2018)
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
• Bachelors of Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering (2013-2017), Concordia University

Sagar Jaiswal

• MASc student (starting from Sept. 2018)
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
• Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering (2015-2018), Southampton University

Andrew Lim

• MHSc student (Co-Supervised with James Drake at SickKids Hospital)
• Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto

Research Assistants

Zhaoxin (Jason) Li

• MEng student
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

Alumni

Dr. Jiachen Zhang

• PhD Student, graduated 2018.
• Personal Website, LinkedIn
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

Tianqi Xu

• MASc student (starting from Sept. 2016)
  • Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
  • BS, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Omid Youssefi

• MASc student (starting from Sept. 2016)
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
• BS, University of Toronto

 

Saba Sabetian

• MASc student (Co-Supervised with James Drake at SickKids Hospital)
• Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto

Alexandre Poersch

• Undergraduate Student University of Manitoba
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Gurtej Bhasin

• BASc Student, University of Toronto
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Ernest Lau

• Undergraduate Student, University of Toronto
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Seifeldin Hassan

• Undergraduate student at UofT
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Jessica Campos

• International Undergraduate Student under Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Program (starting from May 2017)
• Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tec de Monterrey, Mexico

Patrick Ryan

• MASc Student,m graduated 2017.
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

Zhe Li

• MASc Student, graduated 2017.
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

 

Daniel Franca

• International Undergraduate Student from Brazil (starting from May 2016)
• Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais – PUCMG
• Daniel Franca Resume

Vishal Gupta

• International undergraduate student from India (starting from May 2016) under Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Program
• Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India

Ahmed Ujjainwala

• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
• Undergraduate student

Piyush Jain

• Mitacs Globalink, Research Intern
• Senior undergraduate in dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

 Joe Ajoy

• Grade 11, Co-op Student
• Michael Power St. Joseph

Xian Wang

• Exchange Undergraduate Student
• BS, Tianjin University, China
• Currently works as an graduate student in AMNL Lab, dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto.

Hweedo Chang

• Undergraduate Student
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto